Stroke victim wakes up and talks Welsh!

Hospital staff could not understand what the 81-year-old was muttering until his wife realised what he was saying.

Yvonne, who speaks some Welsh, immediately recognised it but was amazed because Alun had never spoken it before.

She had to translate for medics throughout the rest of his treatment.

Alun, of Bathwick, Somerset, had not even heard the language since being evacuated to Wales 70 years ago during the Second World War. He is now being treated for aphasia, a language disorder often caused by strokes, and his English is returning.

“I don’t remember anything from the time of my stroke,” he said.

“But gradually I started speaking a few words in Welsh. This was strange because I’d not lived there since the war. Only my wife could understand.”